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Eihab Abdel-Rahman

Systems Design Engineering, Professor, Associate Chair
Eihab Abdel-Rahman
519-888-4567 x37737
Location: E7 6422
Link to profile: Eihab M. Abdel-Rahman

Arash Arami

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Assistant Professor
Arash Arami
519-888-4567 x47648
Location: E7 3426
Link to profile: Arash Arami
Link to personal webpage: Arash Arami

Michael Barnett-Cowan

Kinesiology, Associate Professor, Associate Chair of Graduate Studies
Michael Barnett-Cowan
519-888-4567 ext. 39177
Location: BMH 1042

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[Waterloo News] September 25, 2018 "Virtual reality motion sickness may be predicted and counteracted"

[ScienceDaily] December 15, 2018 "Aging warps our perception of time, study finds"

[Record] October 12, 2017 "Aging slows perception of falls: UW study"

Link to profile: Michael Barnett-Cowan

Jack Callaghan

Kinesiology, Professor
Jack Callaghan
519-888-4567 x47080
Location: BMH 3122
Link to profile: Jack Callaghan
Link to personal webpage: Jack Callaghan

Naveen Chandrashekar

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Associate Professor
Naveen Chandrashekar
519-888-4567 x38048, 519-888-4567 x38850
Location: E3 2115, E3 2144
Link to profile: Naveen Chandrashekar

Duane Cronin

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Professor, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Trauma Biomechanics and Injury Prevention (tBIP), Director, Impact Mechanics and Material Characterization Laboratory
Duane Cronin
Location: EC4 1157

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[Waterloo Stories] October 5, 2012 "New virtual crash test dummies will have plenty to say"

Link to profile: Duane Cronin
Link to personal webpage: Duane Cronin

Kaan Erkorkmaz

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Professor
Kaan Erkorkmaz
519-888-4567 x35214
Location: EC4 1013

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[Engineering News] October 19, 2016 "Researchers join advanced manufacturing network"

Link to profile: Kaan Erkorkmaz
Link to personal webpage: Kaan Erkorkmaz

Baris Fidan

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Professor
B. Fidan
519-888-4567 x38023
Location: E3 4119
Contact for: Expertise in system/parameter identification, adaptive control and signal processing, mathematical modeling, sensor networks, localization, optimization, driver assistance systems.
Link to profile: Baris Fidan
Link to personal webpage: Baris Fidan

Ehsan Hashemi

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Ehsan Hashemi
519-888-4567 x32205
Location: E3 4118

Research Interests

  • Control system development for Driver Assistance Systems
  • Fault-tolerant state estimation for biped robots
  • Distributed Estimation
  • Control Theory
  • Multibody Dynamics

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Ehsan Hashemi
Link to personal webpage: Ehsan Hashemi

Yue Hu

Engineering, Assistant Professor
Yue Hu
519-888-4567 x40709
Location: E7 3416
Link to profile: Yue Hu
Link to personal webpage: Yue Hu

Jan Huissoon

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Professor
Jan Huissoon
519-888-4567 x33595
Location: E3 4116

Research Interests:

  • Mobility assistive devices
  • Neuro-Musculo-Skeletal Modeling of Human Locomotion
  • Autonomous Navigation Using Artificial Neural Networks
  • Dynamic Seam Tracking for Robotic Welding, Arc Acoustics in GMA welding, Walking Robot Welder
  • Automatic end-of-arm and tool-centre-point calibration

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Jan Huissoon

Behrad Khamesee

Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering
Behrad Khamesee
519-888-4567 x35095
Location: E3 3148

Research Interests:

  • Smart structures, actuators, biomechanics, assistive devices, human-robot interaction, wearable sensors (fitness, monitoring, fall prevention, Alzheimer's)
  • Ophthalmic instrumentation, senors, technologies and hardware design (MRI, CT, ultrasound)
  • Micro-energy harvester through human locomotion
  • Magnetically driven medical microrobots for drug delivery and microsurgery
  • Regenerative prosthetic knee, and cost-effective prosthetic leg (structural design, sensory system, and controller)
  • Micromanipulation using magnetic levitation
  • Auto-focusing mechanism for microscopy using electrorestrictive
  • ​Clean room applications 

Google Scholar

[Waterloo Stories] August 28, 2018 "New sensor could help doctors monitor patient progress from a distance"

[Waterloo Stories] March 2, 2014 "Charge your phone while you shovel - and shiver"

Link to profile: Behrad Khamesee
Link to personal webpage: Behrad Khamesee

Nikolas Knowles

Kinesiology
Nikolas Knowles
519-888-4567 x41042
Location: BMH 1117

Research interests:

  • Upper-extremity biomechanics 
  • Orthopaedic biomechanics 
  • Osteoarthritis
  • Computational modeling 
  • Imaging

[Google scholar profile]

Link to profile: Nikolas Knowles

Jonathan Kofman

Systems Design Engineering
J. Kofman
519-888-4567 x45185
Location: E7 6318

Research Interests:

  • Biomedical systems & biomechatronics - rehabilitation, assistive devices, intelligent design of prostheses and orthoses, 3D body surface measurement
  • Optomechatronics - computer vision (2D and 3D), range-image registration, range-sensing, range-sensor design, vision-based 3D surface measurement systems, optical system design, laser-camera range, sensor design, phase-shifting / fringe-projection 3D surface measurement systems, real-time full-field 3D imaging sensors / real-time full-field 3D surface measurement systems, hand-held 3D imaging sensors / hand-held 3D surface measurement systems, vision-based robot control, vision-based human-robot interfaces
  • Robotics - robot teleoperation, robot vision, human-robot interfaces, human-robot interaction, human-guided robot learning, vision-based robot control (visual servoing), human-assistive/service robots

Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:

Link to profile: Jonathan Kofman
Link to personal webpage: Jonathan Kofman

Jonathan Kusins

Systems Design Engineering, Assistant Professor

Nima Maftoon

Systems Design Engineering
Nima Maftoon
519-888-4567 x47654
Location: E7 6426

Research Interests:

  • Medical device and diagnostic development for hearing and hearing loss
  • Audiology and Otolaryngology
  • Acoustic, Vibration, physiological and cadaveric measurements, animal models
  • Aging, Biomechanics
Link to profile: Nima Maftoon

Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens

Kinesiology
Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens
519-888-4567, ext. 46615
Location: BMH 1054

Research interests:

  • Aging and neurodegeneration
  • Movement disorders
  • Gait kinematics
  • Neuropsychology and neurocognitive assessment
  • Mood, emotion and cognition
  • Fear, threat, anxiety and depression
  • Virtual reality

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens

Stewart McLachlin

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Stewart McLachlin
519-888-4567 x44784
Location: E7 3424

Research interests:

  • Biomechanics
  • Orthopaedic surgery
  • Implant design
  • Bio-mechanical testing
  • Computational modeling
  • Computer-assisted surgery

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Stewart McLachlin
Link to personal webpage: Stewart McLachlin

John McPhee

Systems Design Engineering
John McPhee
519-888-4567 x35341
Location: E3 4114

Research Interests:

  • Biomechatronics
  • Multibody dynamic models and simulation
  • Exoskeletons and rehabilitation robots
  • Biomechanics
  • Sports engineering
  • Systems theory
  • Model-based control
  • Autonomous cars and vehicle dynamics
  • Machine learning
  • Computer vision
  • Hybrid electric vehicles

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Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics [Canada Research Chair Profile]

NSERC/Toyota/Maplesoft Industrial Research Chair in Mathematics-Based Modelling and Design [NSERC Profile]

[Waterloo Stories] February 20, 2019 "Engineering innovation for wheelchair curlers"

[Waterloo Stories] August 5, 2016 "Rio Olympics 2016: Engineering speed for the Canadian track cycling team"

[Waterloo Stories] June 17, 2015 "Waterloo’s $10M dream facility for smarter, greener cars"

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Link to profile: John McPhee
Link to personal webpage: John McPhee

Paul Murphy

Optometry and Vision Science
Paul Murphy
519-888-4567 x42020
Location: OPT 254

Research interests:

  • Development of a thermal imaging system for the ocular surface
  • Development of a tear evaporation sensing and measurement system
  • Development of an ocular surface sensory neuroscience testing system

     
Link to profile: Paul Murphy
Link to personal webpage: Paul Murphy

Kevin Musselman

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Kevin Musselman
519-888-4567 x36740
Location: E5 3013

Research Interests:

  • Nanomaterials
  • Spatial atomic layer deposition
  • Photovoltaic solar cells
  • Nanoelectronics and sensors
  • Electrochemistry
  • Connectivity and Internet of Things
  • Nanotechnology
  • IoT
  • Devices

Google Scholar

Link to profile: Kevin Musselman
Link to personal webpage: Kevin Musselman

Sean Peterson

Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering
Sean Peterson
519-888-4567 x38722
Location: ERC 3007

Research Interests:

  • Biological fluid dynamics, fluid/structure interaction, vortex dynamics, diagnostic methods

  • Energy harvesting

  • Cardiovascular and mechanical blood flow models

  • Human phonation, vocal fold modeling

  • Stent modeling and design

  • Biomimetic propulsors

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[CBB researcher story] January 8, 2013 "The Ability to be Heard Above the Crowd"

Link to profile: Sean D. Peterson
Link to personal webpage: Sean Peterson

Carolyn Ren

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Carolyn Ren
519-888-4567 x38233, 519-888-4567 x33030
Location: E3 2108G, E3 4105
Contact for: Expertise in microfluidics, Lab-on-a-Chip technology, protein and DNA separation towards disease diagnosis and drug discovery, living cell analysis and water toxicity testing.

Research Interests:

  • Protein and DNA separation analysis towards disease diagnosis and drug discovery

  • Biosensing and Devices (bacterial, proteins, fluorescence)

  • Living cell analysis and water toxicity testing

  • Lab-on-a-Chip technology (point-of-care biomedical diagnosis , chemical detection, protein separation and identification, environmental testing)

  • Micro-scale fluid mechanics, droplet microfluidics and nanofluidics

  • High Throughput Screening For Drug Screening
  • Manufacturing Nanomaterials and Carbon Management

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Canada Research Chair in Lab-on-a-Chip Technology [Canada Research Chair Profile]

[Waterloo Stories] June 14, 2012 "Creating the tiny future of science"

Link to profile: Carolyn Ren
Link to personal webpage: Carolyn Ren

Oliver Schneider

Management Sciences
Oliver Schneider
519-888-4567 x38505
Location: CPH 3627

Research Interests

  • Human-computer interaction (HCI)
  • Haptics
  • Creativity-support systems

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[YouTube] October 11, 2018 "DualPanto: A Haptic Device that Enables Blind Users to Continuously Interact with Virtual Worlds"

Link to profile: Oliver Schneider
Link to personal webpage: Oliver Schneider

Tais Sigaeva

Systems Design Engineering
Professor Sigaeva headshot

Research Interests:

  • soft tissue
  • nonlinear elasticity
  • continuum mechanics
  • mechanical testing
  • uniaxial testing
  • biaxial testing
  • residual stress
  • data analysis
  • constitutive modelling
  • cardiovascular mechanics
  • fibrous micro-structure
  • multiphoton microscopy
  • heterogeneity
  • anisotropy
  • layers
  • aneurysms
  • skin

[Google scholar]

Link to profile: Tais Sigaeva

Madjid Soltani

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Ehsan Toyserkani

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Ehsan Toyserkani
519-888-4567 x37560
Location: EC4 1031
Contact for: Expertise in additive manufacturing of biodegradable scaffolds for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering applications, optical sensors for biomedical area.

Research Interests:

  • Tissue engineering and biodegradable implants for regenerative medicine (3D printing)

  • Bio-additive and microscale-additive manufacturing (opto-mechanical sensors, smart structures, developed through additive manufacturing)

  • Novel multi-scale additive manufacturing technologies for biomedical, oil/gas and manufacturing sectors

  • Laser-based fabrication techniques with particular focus on direct write processes in micro- and macro-scale

  • Modeling, sensing and real-time control of laser-based manufacturing techniques

University Research Chair

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Canada Research Chair in Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing [Canada Research Chair Profile]

[Office of Research News] May 8,2018 "Waterloo researchers named Canada Research Chairs" 

[YouTube Lecture] May 6, 2014 "Additive manufacturing"

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Link to profile: Ehsan Toyserkani
Link to personal webpage: Ehsan Toyserkani

James Tung

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
J. Tung
519-888-4567 x43445
Location: E7 3428

Research Interests:

  • Rehabilitation engineering and assistive technologies (gerontology, Osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease, fall risk in stroke survivors, and rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury)

  • Neuromotor control

  • Biomedical signal analysis

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[Waterloo Stories] July 8, 2014 "GPS technology may help detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier"

Link to profile: James Tung

John Wen

Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering
John Wen
519-888-4567 x38362
Location: E3 3151

Research Interests:

  • Renewable energy technologies
  • Biofuel combustion, biomass gasification, combustion generated particulates
  • CO2 capture and storage
  • Synthesis, characterization and applications of nanomaterial
  • Developing nanothermite and energetic nanocomposites
  • EPD fabrication of nanotube and nanowire based electrodes for advanced energy devices
  • Engineering thermodynamics
  • Energy conversion

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Link to profile: John Z. Wen
Link to personal webpage: John Wen

Yimin Wu

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Yimin Wu
519-888-4567 x40185
Location: E7 3418

Research interests:

  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • Materials Interfaces
  • Energy Materials
  • Solar Fuels
  • CO2 reduction
  • Ammonia synthesis
  • Batteries
  • Plastic recycling and upcycling
  • In situ Multimodal Characterizations
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Connectivity and Internet of Things
  • Electronic and Photonic Materials
  • Responsive Materials
  • Neuromorphic Computing
  • Flexible Electronics and Soft Robotics
  • Sensing
  • Healthcare
  • Nanotechnology
Link to profile: Yimin Wu

Mustafa Yavuz

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Professor, Director, Graduate Nanotechnology Program
Mustafa Yavuz
519-888-4567 x32093
Location: E5 3011
Link to profile: Mustafa Yavuz
Link to personal webpage: Nano and Micro Systems Lab

John Yeow

Systems Design Engineering
J. Yeow
519-888-4567 x32152
Location: E3 3159

Research Interests:

  • MEMS/NEMS

  • Nanodevices and carbon nanotube-based sensors for biomedical applications (early disease detection)

  • Microassembly and micromirror devices for genetic microarray reading and tissue imaging

  • Lab-on-a-chip designs

Canada Research Chair in Micro and NanoDevices [Canada Research Chair Profile]

Link to profile: John Yeow
Link to personal webpage: John Yeow

Norman Zhou

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
N. Zhou
519-888-4567 x36095
Location: E5 3007
Contact for: Expertise in welding and joining, especially for medical implantable devices, programmable shape memory alloys, corrosion of laser processes NiTi alloys.

Research Interests:

  • Microjoining (wire bonding, laser & resistance microwelding, etc.) for medical and electronics applications

  • Nanojoining (laser joining, soldering, etc.) for sensing and biomedical applications

  • Brazing/soldering (diffusion brazing, ceramic/metal bonding, etc.) for aerospace, automotive and electronics applications

  • Welding (laser, resistance welding, etc.) for automotive applications

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Canada Research Chair in Advanced Materials Joining and Processing[Canada Research Chair Profile]

[Office of Research News] May 8, 2018 Waterloo researchers named Canada Research Chairs

Link to profile: Norman Y. Zhou
Link to personal webpage: Norman Zhou